Art of printing rugs



Oct. 25, 1927.

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G. PRIFOLD ART OF PRINTING RUGS Filed Jan. 5, 1927 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 15mm 5mm; 151mm 41/472: [54 cm Jam/rs Zea a 7a da/wrs INVENTO a;

i E- 'i E E HE l i E i B ATTORNEY Patented Oct. 25, 1927.

UNITED STATES GEORGE PBIE'OLD, O1 SOMERVILLE, NEW JERSEY.

ART OI EIRINTING BUGS.

Application flied. January 8, 1927. Serial No. 158,456.

This invention relates to an improvement in the art of printing rugs, and particularly rugs made from floor covering 1n strip form and printed by means of a block print- 5 ing machine before they are cut from the strip.

An object of the invention is. to print more complicated designs than have heretofore customarily been used Without materially increasing the number of printing blocks required, and more particularly to provide for printing a center figure on a rug without providing special blocks for this purpose.

A furtherobject is to provide for printing symmetrical center-figure rugs of any desired length from a single set of printing blocks.

In making rugs from floor covering in strip form, such as linoleum, oilcloth, and the like, it has been customary to pass a continuous strip of material through a. block printing machine containing blocks which are supplied with paint, and are timed to print on various zones of the strip to produce the required design. The strip is thereafter cut into rugs. As such rugs are ordinarily provided with borders including end borders extending across the strip and side borders extending along the edges of the strip, two sorts of printing blocks are provided. They are the end-border blocks, and the side-border-and-field blocks. The latter are impressed upon the zones of the strip between each two impressions of the end-border blocks, so that the design printed between the end borders consists of the regular repetition of a figure.

According to the' present invention, the monotonous regularity of a repeated figure is relieved by providing each rug with a center figure, and also, if desired, with an end figure; and by means of a set of blocks carrying asymmetric and symmetrical designs whose edges fit together, rovision is made for producing symmetrica center-figure rugs of any desired length.

The nature of the invention will more fully appear from a detailed description of a sim le illustrative method and apparatus embo ying it. This simple illustration, which provides for printing a very simple design in only one color, Wlll serve to indicate to those skilled in the art, the manner in which the invention may be. applied to the printing of complicated designs using any desired number of colors. In the detailed description I shall refer to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a bottom view of a set of five rinting blocks, indicating diagrammaticaly the upper portion of a conventional block printing machine on which the blocks are mounted;

Figs. 2 and 3 show strips of"floor covering printed from said set of blocks; and

Figs. 4 to 11 show, on a smaller scale, rugs of different lengths printed from said set of blocks.

The set of blocks shown in Fig. 1 includes an end-border block 1, an end-figure block 2 carrying an asymmetric design, and a similar block 3 carrying the same asymmetric design turned in the opposite direction, a center-figure-fill-in block 4 carrying a simmetrical design, and a field-fill-in bloc 5 also carrying a symmetrical design.

The end-border block 1 carries a pair of end-borders 1, which together occupy the entire width of the block.

The end-figure blocks 2, 3 carry sideborder sections 2, 3 and asymmetric middle figures 2 3", and may in addition have intermediate figures 2, 3 which may also be asymmetric. The middle figures 2", 3 extend to the side edge a of each block. The intermediate figures 2, 3 may extend to each side edge a, b of each block; and if desired, the middle figures 2 3 could be extended to the side edge I). 00

The center-figure-fill-in block 4 carries the side-border sections 4, 4 and a symmetrical middle figure 4 which extends across the width of the block. This block may also be provided with symmetrical intermediate figures 4. Each side edge of the symmetrical design on the block 4 fits the side edge a of the asymmetric design on the blocks 2 and 3.

The field-fill-in block 5 carries side-border figures as shown in Fig. 2, spaced airs of the asymmetric designs of the b ocks 2 and 3 are printed along the strip with theiredges turned toward each other. Thus as shown in Fi 2, one such pair is formed by by im ressin the block 2 on the zone A and t e bloc middle space of each alternate pair of such impressions is. filled in to form a center pressed on the zone figure byv the symmetrical design of the; .block 4.. Thus in Fi 2, the block is imsothat its 1m res sion cooperates'withj the impressions o the I blocks 2 andBon-thefzones A, C? in forma center ,figurellmade up of the figures 2", 4" and3".' The. middle spaceof the other alternate pairs of impressions from the 1 blocks 2 and 3is filled by pairs, of end borders, so that theflfigu alternate pairs become,.m each rug printed,

end figures-projecting inwardly from the end borders, and cooper'atlng therewith to provide end-border designs. For this purgose,'the'block 1 is impressed upon the zones and B in Fig. 2.

;.If, as shown in Fig. 2; spaces m as be-' tween the pairs of impressions of the blocks 2 and 3, such spaces are filled by impressions of the symmetrical design of the block 5. Thus in Fig. 2, the block 5 is impressed upon the zones D and D. i

After the strip has been printed, it is out A into separate rugs along the center lines of the pairs of end borders, that is, alon the center lines of the zones B and B". ach

' ru has a border, and a center figure, and

v such a that shown in Fig. 3, a slig tly en figures.

To make a shorter center-figure ru design,

1fferent method is followed. Pairs of im ressions of the asymmetric designs of the b ocks '2 and 3 with their edges (2' towards each other are made along the strip, but in this case the .impressions of alternate pairs are contiguous, while those of the otheralternate pairs are spaced apart. Thus m Fig. 3, one pair of asymmetric designs is formed by impressing the block 2 on the zone A and the block 3 on the zone C, while the next pair is formed by impressing the blocks 2 and 3 on the zones A and C which are contiguous, and the next by impresslng them on the separated zones A and Q". Conseuent-ly in each alternate pair of lmpresslons, t e figures 2 and 3" cooperate in formin a center figure 12. The middle spaces 0 the other alternate pairs of impressions from the blocks 2 and 3 are filled by pairs of end borders. For this purpose, the block 1 is impressed on the zones B and B" m 3 on "the zone C, and the nextby impressing the block 2 on'the zone A" and theblock 3 on the zone C' The;

res 2", 3" of such Fig. 3, so'that the figures. 2", 3 impressed on the zones A, C and A, C" form end figures in the rug designs.

As before, any space left, between the airs of im resslons of the blocks 2 and 3 1s filled in y im ressions of the block 5, for example, on t e'zones D and D; and the strip is cut on the center lines of the pairsof end borders. important advantage of the set of blocksdescribed is that it may be used--if desired without removing any block from the block rinting' machine,' but merely by fadgustmg t e timing mechanism of the ma- .-'chme'to prints mmetrical center-figure rugspf any desire length from three units up, increasm The unitI're erred to is the width of a block which, in a conventional block printmg machine, is 18 inches,-but which may, of course, be made anyamount desired. Figs. 4 to 11 show ru 's of different len ths printed from the set 0 blocks'shown in ig. v1. These rugs vary in length from three units to ten units, therug' shown in each figure being one unit longer than that shown in the previous fi re. The methods of printing these di erent rug designs are plainly apparent from the'figures, as the Identifying number of the block impressed the blocks 2, 3 and 4 and, if desired, also for the blockv 5 and the block 1, a set of blocks having figures adapted to form registering impressions. In such case, the fitting of the edges of the asymmetric and symmetrical block designs hereinabove described must, of course, be carried out with respect to the blocks for each separate color.' A very simple example of the ap plication of the invention to multi-color work would be to substitute for each of the blocks -2 and 3 a set of three blocks, one

by. increments of one unit.

carrying the middle figure 2 or 3 and the side-border sections 2 or 3, another carrying the intermediate figure 2 or 3, and

the third carrying figures adapted to fill 1n the spaces between the impressions of the border sections, middle figures and intermediate figures. Three corresponding blocks carrymg respectively the border sections 4 and center figure 4*, the intermediate figures 4, and fill-in fi res would then be substituted for the lock 4, and three correspondmg blocks carrying respectively the border sections 5*, the intermediate figures 5, and fill-in figures would be substituted for the block 5.

It will be understood also that asymmetric and symmetrical designs having any desired form and any degree of complication may be, and in practical work ordinarily are, substituted for the simple geometric figures which have been shown for the sake of illustration.

lVhat I claim is:

1. The improvement in the art of printing rugs, which comprises forming a complete end border and an end figure on separate blocks, impressing said blocks side by side to print an end-border design on each rug, and utilizing the one of said blocks having the end figure to print a design at an mtermediate part of each rug.

2. The method of making printed rugs from strip material, which comprises printing pairs of oppositely turned asymmetric figures along the strip, the figures of alternate pairs being spaced apart, utilizing the other alternate pairs to form a center figure,

printing a pair of end-borders between the spaced figures of the first alternate pairs, and cutting the strip along the center line of each pair of end borders. a

3. The method of making printed rugs from strip material, which comprises printing pairs of oppositely turned, spaced apart, asymmetric figures along the strip, printing a fitting symmetrical figure between the figures of alternate pairs to form center figures, printing a pair of end borders between the figures of the other alternate pairs, and cutting the strip along the center line of each pair of said end borders.

4. The method of making printed rugs from strip material, which comprises printing pairs of oppositely turned asymmetric figures along the strip, the figures of alter nate pairs being spaced apart, and those of the other alternate pairs being contiguous to form a center figure, printing a pair of end borders between the spaced figures of the first alternate pairs, and cutting the strip,

along the center line of each pair of said end borders.

5. The improvement in the art of printing rugs, which comprises providing an asym' metric design and two symmetrical designs whose edges fit the two edges of the asymmetric design respectively, and printing such designs side by side in fitting relation to produce symmetrical rug patterns of difierent lengths.

6. A set of blocks for use in a block print ing machine for printing symmetrical rug designs of different lengths, comprising two blocks carrying the same asymmetric design turned in opposite directions, and two blocks carrying different symmetrical designs whose edges fit the two edges of said asymmetric design respectively. I

7. A set of blocks for use in printing bordered symmetrical rug designs of different lengths, comprising a block carrying a pair of end borders which together extend completely across it, and four blocks each carrying side-border sections, two of said blocks carrying between their side-border sections the same asymmetric design turned in opposite directions, and the other two carrying between their side-border sections different. symmetrical designs whose edges fit the two edges of said asymmetric design respectively.

8. A set of blocks for use in a block printing machine for printing bordered symmetrical rugdesigns of different lengths, comprising a block carrying a pair of end borders which together extend across the entire width of the block, and three blocks carrying side-border sections, two of said blocks carrying between their side-border sections the same asymmetric design turned in opposite directions, and the third block carrying between its side-border sections a symmetrical design whose edges fit one edge of said asymmetric design.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my, hand.

GEORGE PRIFOLD. 

